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limiting factor

The definition of a limiting factor is something that limits an activity or prevents a population from expanding.

(noun)

An example of a limiting factor is only being able to serve soup to ten people because you only have ten soup bowls.
An example of a limiting factor is the destruction of a food that an organism needs to survive.

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See limiting factor in Webster's New World College Dictionary

an environmental factor that limits the growth or activities of an organism or that restricts the size of a population or its geographical range

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